Tag: Iraq
US combat troops leaving Iraq
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss the US’ plans to withdraw combat troops from Iraq, new Department of Justice prohibitions on surveilling journalists, and how employers are taking extreme measures to put unvaccinated workers at a competitive disadvantage. Siri Nelson, the executive director of the National Whistleblower Center, joins Jesse to mark Whistleblower Appreciation Day. …
Biden ends Iraq war, Medicare for All marches, Buffalo attacks socialist mayoral candidate
Joe Biden announced this week that combat operations in Iraq were over. Lee Camp looks back at all the times previous presidents made the same false declaration about the US’ extended illegal occupation of the Middle Eastern nation. Camp also reports on the Medicare for All marches that took place across the country last weekend, the boost being given to the military’s already-gargantuan budget, the sentencing of whistleblower Daniel Hale, and the latest in the Syrian chemical weapons saga. …
After 18 years in Iraq, was all that war just for oil? (full show)
After 18 years of occupation, President Biden has announced a withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. After hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, what – if anything – was achieved? Was the war, after all, just over oil? RT America’s John Huddy gives us the latest news. Then economics Professor Richard Wolff and energy and security expert Khaldoun Khelil share their analysis. …
Iraq joins long list of US’s lost wars. Time to reassess military strategy? (full show)
We came, we saw, we did not conquer. After Iraq and the US agree to end America’s occupation there, Iraq joins the long list of wars lost by the US. RT Correspondent Faran Fronczak breaks down the deal, and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, the host of RT’s On Contact, discusses how he was prevented from telling the truth as a New York Times bureau chief in Iraq. …